From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 10:44:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA22921 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 10:44:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA22916 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 10:44:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA25897; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 10:44:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 10:44:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Charlie ROOT cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fvwm-config In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Charlie ROOT wrote: > i've got fvwm working and would now like to > configure it on my own, but i'm not clear on > when, in wich order and from where rc-files > are being read. right now i have a .xinitrc > file in my /root containing only the line > fvwm > this causes fvwm to launch but when i try to > make a .fvwmrc as well and run startx again > it says that every command in the .fvwmrc i > created in false. what shall i do? from where > is the default-fvwmconfig read. (when i do startx > without any .fvwmrc i get an xterm a virtual > desktop and some other things.) If you want to tune fvwm, hack ~/.fvwmrc andleave .xinitrc alone. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major